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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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When I love somebody, I like him to be around I like him to take me out to dinner I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.
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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.
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I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
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Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.
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Tell the truth and not the facts.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
Maya Angelou
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
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